Experimental Research of Nuclear Waste

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Centre of Experimental Geotechnics

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A voluntary course dealing with safe radioactive waste disposal. Classification of radioactive waste according to various aspects, principle of a multi-barrier system, vertical and horizontal way of disposal. Requirements for the construction of the deep geological repository. Natural analogues. Natural and engineered barriers. Bentonite - basic material of the geotechnical part of the engineered barrier, requirements for its properties. Interdisciplinarity of the research, laboratory and „in-situ? research (underground laboratories), physical modelling (Mock-Up models). Practical laboratory lessons (plasticity of bentonites, swelling pressure measurements, permeability measurements of compacted samples, strength and deformation properties, thermophysical properties). Practical lesson at the Josef UEF underground laboratory (www.uef-josef.eu) - construction of big “in situ? physical models)

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no prerequisites

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